Slovak Caves Administration

Ramsar wetlands

Slovakia has gradually included 13 most important wetlands on the List of Internationally Important Wetlands within the commitment of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (adopted on 2^nd February 1971 in Iranian city of Ramsar), ratified by the Slovak Republic in 1990. One of them is the Domica, Ramsar Site, which was included on the list on 2^nd February 2001 as the 12^th Ramsar site in Slovakia (number 1051 in the list). The preparation was shared by the Ministry of the Environment, Slovak Caves Administration and State Nature Conservation. The second underground wetland included on list of Ramsar on 17^th November 2006 are the Caves of the Demanovska Valley.